halfamoon | XF Recs from the Vault (Reply)

I like melodrama, angst, and Mulder/Scully. I think these stories give great, strong Scully, but they might not be the right Scully for you!

Penumbra, Black Hole Season: Beautifully rendered Mulderlove for Scully after Orison.

MustangSally (Gossamer): For Scully/Other with an Other who recognizes a good thing when he meets her, Logic and Proportion. For Marita, try They Love Thee Not.

Jane Mortimer, The Sin-Eater: This was one of the first XF stories I ever read, and it shaped me profoundly. Scully experiences a strange event on an investigation and Mulder is changed by it. Scully’s slow realization of just how much he’s changed is chilling.

Nascent/Dark Nascent: Everything, absolutely everything. (Archive.org) Nascent is a master of writing as if M&S really care about science, mystery and investigation. Pillar of Salt is a masterpiece, beautifully taking advantage of XF premises, exploring the M&S relationship and speculating about the nature of the mind, using similar premises as Connie Willis in Passage.

Jordan: oyster: Scully, Mulder and Skinner, all in well-crafted prose, and nice visuals too.

Kel, Recycled Virgins: A wry, unflinchingly observant Scully raises this story above the crowd. I admit to an almost unbreakable bias towards first times, but this story shows M&S settling, none too smoothly, into a permanent relationship in the midst of the rest of their lives.

Penumbra, Contact High: A deeply funny, intelligently written exploration of what it was like after Scully & Mulder got pulled out of that giant mushroom. Scully & Mulder are a lot smarter than average, and I like a story that makes use of that fact.